Charms in Onimusha: Way of the Sword give passive buffs ranging from more health and parry damage to upgraded special abilities, but the game splits their equipping and upgrading between different menus. Way of the Sword introduces charms early on and sends you to Enma’s Hall to upgrade them, but it doesn’t mention how to actually use them. You cannot equip charms at Enma’s Hall or at Spirit Mirror save points. Here’s how to manage your charm loadout, expand your equipment slots, and max out all 20 charms to unlock the completion achievement.
How to Equip Onimusha: Way of the Sword Charms
You can equip or change charms at any point during your adventure from the pause menu.
- Open the Pause Menu.
- Go to Equipment.
- Open the Charms tab.
- Select the charm you want and click Confirm to equip it.
Because this takes place in the pause screen rather than at a save point, you can adjust your charms mid-mission to fit whatever combat encounter you face at that time.
How Many Charms Can You Equip in Onimusha: Way of the Sword
You start the game restricted to a single charm slot, and more slots are unlocked through the skill tree. Investing in the Charm Capacity skills lets you carry more passive effects at the same time, allowing up to 3 charms to be equipped.
To wear multiple charms at once, invest Power Stones into the Basic Skill tree:
- Unlocking Charm Capacity 1 opens a second charm slot.
- Unlocking Charm Capacity 2 opens the third and final charm slot.
Having more slots is a big help once you’ve collected charms with bonuses that are best for different situations. Keep a damage-heavy loadout ready for deadly battles, but don’t be afraid to swap in some utility or defensive effects when things get hairy.
Where to Find and Upgrade All Charms in Way of the Sword
All 20 charms in Onimusha: Way of the Sword are linked to main story missions and side quests. There is no need to scour the open world for hidden collectibles—just clear the quest markers on your map, and you’ll have the full charm set in no time.
To upgrade charms, you need to give your collected items as offerings at Enma’s Hall, alongside spending Red Souls:
- Favor Mechanics: Offerings like Watermelon (+100), Unrefined Sake (+100), Millet (+100), Cloudy Sake (+500), Wheat (+500), and Persimmon (+1,000) are traded in the “Make an Offering” sub-menu to fill the required Favor threshold for an enhancement. You can find these items as world loot or purchase them in limited quantities from Yorimasa’s Monument.
- Red Souls: Spent directly alongside Favor points during the upgrade process and collected as you continue to defeat Genma enemies.
You can use the Auto-Select prompt (Square / X) in the offering menu to instantly allocate available items toward the target Favor requirement.
Note: The material cost to level up charms is heavy. If you don’t succeed in upgrading the whole collection before the story ends, your charm inventory and all upgrade progress will carry over into New Game Plus.
Charms display their current rank via icon nodes (e.g., Level 1 moving to Level 2) and scale their percentage buffs accordingly, like increasing the Charm of the Healer from +4% to +6% Healing Effectiveness. Out of three upgrade levels for every charm, if you max out one, you’ll earn the “A Real Charmer” trophy, and if you manage to upgrade all 20, you’ll unlock the “Charmed Life” achievement.
